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What happened in history on this day: August 10?
On August 10 in ...
- 1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia ship completes first American voyage around the world.
- 1821 - Missouri admitted as 24th US state.
- 1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio (1,000 blacks leave for Canada).
- 1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 in Illinois.
- 1835 - Mob of whites and oxen pull black school to a swamp out of Canaan, New Hampshire.
- 1846 - US President James Polk signs legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution.
- 1856 - Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana, USA.
- 1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, USA.
- 1866 - Former US President James Buchanan is first to communicate over Atlantic Cable, to Queen Victoria.
- 1884 - In New York City, New York, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. The total felt area is estimated at 181,000 square kilometres.
- 1885 - Leo Daft opens America's first commercially-operated electric streetcar (Baltimore, Maryland).
- 1887 - Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois, USA.
- 1893 - Chinese are deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act.
- 1914 - Charles S. Hamlin begins tenure as first Federal Reserve Board chairman.
- 1921 - Franklin Roosevelt is stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Island of Campobello.
- 1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge formally dedicates the Mount Rushmore site.
- 1932 - In Archie, Missouri, USA a falling meteoroid strikes a homestead; no injuries.
- 1938 - 119 degrees F (48 degrees C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record).
- 1944 - Race riots in Athens, Alabama, USA.
- 1945 - The Japanese government requests peace with the United States, but insists on retaining the Emperor.
- 1948 - The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York).
- 1949 - American National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense.
- 1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned first object from space.
- 1966 - First lunar orbiter launched by US.
- 1966 - US Treasury Department announces it will print no more $2 notes.
- 1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again.
- 1972 - An asteroid 2-10m in diameter enters Earth's atmosphere over Utah, USA, and exits 100 seconds later over Alberta, Canada.
- 1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview US President Richard Nixon.
- 1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer.
- 1980 - Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas.
- 1987 - Flight Readiness Firing of Space Shuttle Discovery's main engines is successful.
- 1990 - American Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.
- 1999 - Buford O. Furrow, Junior wounds five and kills one in the Los Angeles, California, Jewish Community Center.
- 2001 - The USS Mississinewa oil tanker, sunk in the Ulithi Atoll lagoon in 1944, begins leaking 1100-1900 litres per hour in Micronesia.
- 2007 - The US Federal Reserve announces it would lend banks as much cash as necessary to keep money markets operating smoothly.
- 2010 - At the end of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, 60 million Americans caught it, 273,000 were hospitalized, and 12,400 died.
- 2010 - A 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3T float plane crashes near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing former U.S. Republican senator Ted Stevens at age 86 and four others.
Births on August 10
- 1874 - Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover in West Branch, Iowa, USA; 31st US President (Republican, 1929-1933).
- 1893 - Birth of Douglas Stuart Moore in Cutchogue, New York, USA; composer (Good Night Harvard).
- 1899 - Birth of Jack Haley in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Ford Star Revue).
- 1909 - Birth of Leo Fender in Beuna Park, California, USA; perfected the electric guitar (1948, Telecaster, Stratocaster).
- 1912 - Birth of Richard Reeves in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Murph - Date With an Angel).
- 1913 - Birth of Noah Beery Junior in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Rocky - The Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot).
- 1914 - Birth of Jeff Corey in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Getting Straight, Superman and Mole Men).
- 1923 - Birth of Rhonda Fleming in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (Spellbound).
- 1925 - Birth of Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in South Orange, New Jersey, USA; American numismatist, curator, scholar, cataloger, professor of art history at Yale, author (Numismatic Art in America, Aesthetics of the United States Coinage 1971, 2007).
- 1928 - Birth of Eddie Fisher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; singer ("Oh My Papa", "Lady of Spain").
- 1928 - Birth of Jimmy Dean in Texas, USA; actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever).
- 1933 - Birth of Rocky Colavito in Bronx, New York, USA; baseball player (Hit four home runs in a game).
- 1940 - Birth of Bobby Hatfield in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA; singer (The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (1964), "Unchained Melody").
- 1943 - Birth of Ronnie Spector AKA Veronica Bennett Greenfield in New York City, New York, USA; singer (The Ronettes - "Be My Baby").
- 1952 - Birth of Ashley Putnam in New York City, New York, USA; soprano (New York City Opera 1978).
- 1959 - Birth of Rosanna Arquette in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, What About Brian, Shirley).
Deaths on August 10
- 1945 - Death of Robert Goddard; father of American rocketry, holder of 214 patents.
- 1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician (Democrat-Senator-Tennessee) dies at age 60.
- 1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby), dies at age 69 (born 1910).
- 2002 - Death of Morgan "Bill" Evans at age 92 in California, USA; gardener and landscaper of Disneyland, supervised and trained landscape architects for all other Disney parks, named a Disney Legend in 1992.
- 2005 - 103-year old Ted Radcliffe, probably the oldest professional baseball player, dies from cancer; Radcliffe was the 1943 Negro American League Most Valuable Player.
- 2007 - Death of James Faust, an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1920).
- 2008 - American singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes (Hot Buttered Soul album, theme from Shaft, voice of Chef from South Park) dies at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 65.
- 2010 - A 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3T float plane crashes near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing former U.S. Republican senator Ted Stevens at age 86 and four others.
- 2022 - Death of John Eastman at age 83 of pancreatic cancer in East Hampton, New York, USA; entertainment lawyer (Paul McCartney).
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